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Brian A. Cook

Let’s take a close look at the article on the anti-clerical party. Please note that the said party actually publicly defends Jews and that many conservative Catholics attack Jews. When you condemn secularism wholesale, don’t you end up condeming EVERYTHING that liberals stand for, including protection of Jews?

Brian A. Cook

The point I was getting at is two-fold.

Secularists are not demons and conservative Catholics are not angels.

Mother Church has a lot of work to do in order to minister to humanity.

Seraphic

Oh dear. What a very ignorant and biased article in the NCR. Yes, three million Polish Jews were killed during the Second World War, and so were three million Polish Christians. Despite a heroic underground resistance, Poland was entirely controlled by German Nazi overlords throughout the Second World War.

Then the communists took over, and they formed a pretty robust challenge to the Catholic church themselves. Their anti-clericalism included the beating & drowning death of Father Jerszy Popieluszko in 1984, which was not back in ancient days, but let me see, less than 30 years ago. What a very short memory some of us have. And as the UK let down Poland twice (i.e. doing nothing to prevent Germany from steamrolling over it in 1939 and then handing it over to Stalin at Yalta in 1945 ), it would be nice if we actually paid attention to the realities of contemporary Polish history.

Brian A. Cook

Unfortunately, there’s still that matter of right-wing, traditionalist, nationalist Catholics who vilify Jews as conspiring enemies of the Church. Is that not the elephant in the room of the Church in Poland?